They All Come Out in the Wash

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of those queer books that doesn’t seem to have a pause or period in it.  Honestly, I felt like the pace was such that I couldn’t ever really catch my breath.  The pace of excitement, you know; it all seemed to go by in a flash.  Perhaps that is most appropriate for a character like Willy Wonka, described as both squirrel-like and excitable.  A nice, lucid book for children all in all.  Though I think the children had rather too good a grip on grammar from time to time.  Though old Dahl himself, apparently hated Gene Wilder’s version of the movie, I can’t help but love a character who quotes Shakespeare at odd times.  At any rate, as Willy would say, it all comes out in the wash.